"Curious footnotes to history" Department:

"ometimes reporters wrote up private memos for the publisher and top editors. Russell Baker summarized a private five-hour meeting with Times reporters and Senator Hubert H. Humphrey on Dec. 15, 1958, about HumphreyÕs talks in Moscow with the Soviet premiere, Nikita Khrushchev. Talking about China, Khrushchev said, according to the memo: ÒTo make a modern society function successfully ... ÔincentivesÕ were required. Humphrey protested that K. was talking capitalism. ÒNevertheless,Õ K. said, Ôit works.Õ Ó"

(NY Times on its own history)